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(1867-1944). U.S. illustrator and artist Charles Dana Gibson is remembered as a master of black-and-white drawing and a skillful portrayer of society life. Born on Sept. 14, 1867, in Roxbury, Mass., he studied at the Art Students League in New York City before becoming an illustrator for Life magazine. His renderings of young women, known as Gibson girls, defined and contributed to the American popular ideal of female beauty in the early 1900s, and his pen-and-ink drawings were widely imitated. (See also fashion.)